Merchandise Planner, Victoria's Secret Beauty - New York, United States - Victorias Secret & Co.

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Merchandise Planner, Victoria's Secret Beauty Victorias Secret Careers 02RQ T12:30:06+00:00 02RQ8 **Merchandise Planner, Victoria's Secret Beauty**

Brand: Victoria's Secret

Location: New York, NY, US

Job Area: Planning and Allocation

Employment type: Full-time

Job ID: 02RQ8

**Description**

**OVERVIEW:**

Victorias Secret Beauty is looking for a Merchandise Planner to join the team This role will be focused on a specific category of business and is responsible for translating the merchants vision into viable profitable results through developing and maintaining sales, inventory and margin plans that tie to financial targets.

**RESPONSIBILITIES:**

Pre-Season

Develop assortment plans for sales, margin and inventory to the style/choice level by store groupings (i.e. cluster, format) in support of productivity and financial targets

Partner with merchants to create and maintain a seasonal theme-based assortment list and volume targets by store grouping

Identify and propose initial and promotional pricing structures to drive topline season goals

Participate in consensus planning with demand planner; collaborate to drive to "one number" sales plan with recommendations for events, based on class plan and forecast

In-Season

Analyze and reflect current trends in strategy performance based on actual sales performance; revise in-season plans for sales and profitability while maintaining appropriate inventory turns

Actively manage inventory levels, partnering with production and inventory deployment partners to pull up, push out, cancel, or shift orders between sales channels as necessary

Partner with merchant to develop and propose promotion and merchandise strategies in response to current business trends

Manage and execute promotional and liquidation strategies to meet seasonal inventory targets

Reporting/Analytics

Analyze performance for area of responsibility relative to performance of plan and trend for both period and season sales, margin and inventory

Prepare recommendations and alternatives for key financial meetings/decisions in order to maximize sales and margin and optimize inventory productivity

Perform trade-off analysis on impact of new items to the assortment identified at a sub-brand level and provide financial planning recommendations

Integration Points

Partner with central planning to inform, reconcile and revise financial targets based on the category and attribute plans

Partner with Merchant, Finance, Customer Marketing, Executive Committee to make informed decisions on promotional events and season planning

Partner with Merchants, Commercialization and Customer Marketing on exit strategies, new item launches and collections; provide recommendations in response to financial targets

Work with demand planning to improve reliability through demand plan accuracy

Integrate with Space Planning to represent the opportunities and constraints that the physical environment creates at store level, monitor results from tests, launches and edits

**Qualifications**

**QUALIFICATIONS/CAPABILITIES:**

Bachelor's degree

5-7 years of experience

Vertical retail experience and/or assortment/attribute planning experience a plus

Strong problem-solving and analytical skills; strong aptitude with numbers; retail math skills

Ability to advance to high levels of computer literacy; exposure to relevant planning, finance, analytical, data management systems systems used: JDA Enterprise Software's Enterprise Planning suite

Strong excel skills; ability to read, adopt and build dynamic reporting

Able to synthesize large quantities of data to drive business decisions

Possesses strong business acumen and ability to make sound business decisions when information is limited

High energy, staying flexible and positive during fast paced/ ever changing environment

High degree of communication and partnership; ability to manage up and across

Optimization mindset designs and develops models/plans to optimize decisions & processes

An equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate in hiring or terms and conditions of employment because of an individual's race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status or any other protected category recognized by state, federal or local laws. We only hire individuals authorized for employment in the United States.

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